Roy Lilley is a health policy analyst, writer, broadcaster and commentator on the

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and social issues. Roy Lilley

He was the vice-chairman of West Surrey and North East Hampshire Health Authority and formerly a Conservative member of

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Borough Council where he was Mayor in 1988/89. Between 1991 and 1995, he was the chairman of the Homewood NHS Trust,

Chertsey Chertsey is a town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England, south-west of central London. It grew up round Chertsey Abbey, founded in 666 CE, and gained a market charter from Henry I. A bridge across the River Thames first appeared in ...

Surrey. He was a visiting fellow at the Management School,

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a ...

, and at the Centre for Health Services Management at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

. He has written for

the Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide ...

Sunday Times ''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, wh ...

, Daily Telegraph and other newspapers, journals and management periodicals including a regular column in

Pharmaceutical Marketing Many countries have measures in place to limit advertising by pharmaceutical companies. Pharmaceutical company spending on marketing generally exceeds that of its research budget. In Canada, $1.7 billion was spent in 2004 to market drugs to physi ...

magazine. He runs the nhsManagers.network which produces an opinionated free newsletter four times a week which is claimed to reach 300,000 NHS managers inboxes. He is the author of over twenty books on health and health service management. Because his newsletter is regarded as influential those attacked in it can be defensive. It is supported by the Institute of Healthcare Management. He was an active opponent of the

Health and Social Care Act 2012 The Health and Social Care Act 2012c 7 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It provided for the most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date.'' BMJ'', 2011; 342:d408Dr Lansley's M ...

and during the campaign produced a draft NHS Emergency Powers Act giving an alternative approach to NHS reform. At this time, he was widely credited for introducing the nickname "La La" for

Andrew Lansley Andrew David Lansley, Baron Lansley, (born 11 December 1956) is a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who previously served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Secretary of State for Health and Leader of the H ...

, the then Health Secretary and architect of the reforms. In 2013 he chaired the People’s Inquiry into London’s NHS. In March 2014 he was reported as saying, in connection with the

care.data care.data was a programme announced by the NHS Digital, then Health and Social Care Information Centre in spring 2013. It aimed to extract data from GP surgeries into a central database through the General Practice Extraction Service (GPES). Membe ...

controversy that better use of data was vital to improve the quality of care but that politicians had made it more difficult for the public believe their commitments about the future use of the records, because previous ministers’ pledges - such as a promise to have no top-down reorganisation of the NHS - had been broken. Lilley lives in

Camberley Camberley is a town in the Borough of Surrey Heath in Surrey, England, approximately south-west of Central London. The town is in the far west of the county, close to the borders of Hampshire and Berkshire. Once part of Windsor Forest, Cam ...

, Surrey;

Publications

*1998: ''Disease Management'' (editor) *2010: ''Dealing with Difficult People''. (Creating Success Series,) *2011: ''Top Tips for Managing in Terribly Treacherous, Turbulent and Tricky Times!''

References

External links

Kings Fund

Roy Lilley

nhsManagers.network
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